Pepper-box
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The pepper-box pistol or simply pepperbox is a multiple-barrel firearm, mostly in the form of a handgun, that has three or more gun barrels each holding a single shot. The barrels are fired in sequenc
A pepperbox by Allen & Thurber, one of the most common American designs
A mid-19th century four barrel Russian pepperbox pistol
A pepperbox revolver from Småland, Sweden, made by Johan Engholm, Ödestugu
Four barrel hand rotated pepperbox made by James Purdey in the final years of the Regency era.
Revolver
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A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloa
Pepper-box
…or, more typically, by rotating the entire barrel assembly to bring each barrel in line with a single lock or hammer, similar to the rotation of a revolver's cylinder. Pepperbox guns have existed for all types of firelock firearms and metal-cased ammunition systems used in breechloading firearms: matchlock…
A Smith & Wesson Model 10, the most common revolver design
Firing a Smith & Wesson Model 686 .357 Magnum
Detail of an 8-chambered matchlock revolver (Germany, c. 1580)
Colt Paterson 2nd belt model